{"product_id":"green-meadow-stories-9791043134517","title":"Green Meadow Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thornton W. Burgess\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Les Prairies Numeriques\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Animals - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThornton W. Burgess\u003c\/strong\u003e was an American naturalist and the author of dozens of books for children, the most enduring of which are \u003cstrong\u003eOld Mother West Wind\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eThe Burgess Bird Book\u003c\/strong\u003e for Children. \u003cstrong\u003eBurgess\u003c\/strong\u003e was a passionate twentieth-century conservationist who dedicated his life to teaching children and their families about the importance of the natural life of the northern \u003cstrong\u003eNorth American\u003c\/strong\u003e forest. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Green Meadow Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e compilation is made up of four distinct but entwined tales: those of \u003cstrong\u003eHappy Jack Squirrel\u003c\/strong\u003e, Mrs. \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Rabbit\u003c\/strong\u003e, Bowser the Hound, and \u003cstrong\u003eOld Granny\u003c\/strong\u003e Fox. Through the adventures of these focal characters readers are introduced to the wider territory of the Green Meadows, the Green Forest, and the \u003cstrong\u003eSmiling Pond\u003c\/strong\u003e as well as to the animals' Great World.The animals of \u003cstrong\u003eBurgess\u003c\/strong\u003e's stories are anthropomorphized, undoubtedly, but not caricatured: these are not the twee creatures of Disney cartoons. Their behaviour is explained in ways that would be understandable to a human child-this is fiction, after all-but \u003cstrong\u003eBurgess\u003c\/strong\u003e's \"little people of the forest\" are not simply humans dressed in fur and feathers. The original illustrations in \u003cstrong\u003eBurgess\u003c\/strong\u003e's books (by \u003cstrong\u003eHarrison Cady\u003c\/strong\u003e, not reproduced in this edition) show the animals wearing clothes, but \u003cstrong\u003eBurgess\u003c\/strong\u003e's own descriptions of animals are more natural and metaphorical, and less fantastic. For example, he describes Chatterer the Red Squirrel, \"who always wears a red coat with vest of white,\" a compact way of communicating the look of a squirrel that many of today's children will never have seen with their own eyes. Less pleasantly, it is \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Rabbit\u003c\/strong\u003e's fur and flesh that is rent when Hooty the Owl tears \u003cstrong\u003ePeter\u003c\/strong\u003e's \"coat\" one night on the \u003cstrong\u003eOld\u003c\/strong\u003e Pasture.\u003cstrong\u003eBurgess\u003c\/strong\u003e has tremendous respect for the creatures he depicts, as well as for their natural home. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Les Prairies Numeriques","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568984834199,"sku":"9791043134517","price":1695.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9791043134517.webp?v=1774872234","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/green-meadow-stories-9791043134517","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}